Stories on the Web
There are many stories for children on the internet! These are a few sites that your family may enjoy. However, snuggling up with a good book and letting your child turn the pages, etc. still can't be beat!

• Bedtime Stories- Stories to read aloud (You will need to scroll down to see an index of the stories.)
• Kids Korner
• Mother Goose - Two traditional stories and 1 nursery rhyme
• The North Star - Choose a character and then follow along!
• Old Time Fairy Tales
• Sebastian the Swan
• Story Bear's Stories
• www.storybrooklane.org.
• Story Books On Line
• Story Box
• Story Hour
• Story Place - Stories with corresponding online and printable activities

Games and practicing skills
 http://www.kidport.com/ - see description below

http://pbskids.org/
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/

Kids Songs:
http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/alpha.html

Letters, Phonics and Reading:
http://www.starfall.com/ - Starfall's ABC section teaches letter-sound relationships by providing a kid-friendly navigation system that explicitly focuses on each letter of the alphabet. This explicit instruction is most effective in kindergarten and for ESL and special education students when it is combined with exercises in phonemic awareness. When learning to read, students who understand the basic sounds of the language can apply letter-sound relations with greater ease.

It is also essential to practice writing in kindergarten because it helps to reinforce phonics and develop reading skills. Starfall's free ABC printouts provide practice in writing and have suggestions for phonemic awareness activities to assist parents and teachers.

After students learn the predictable relationship between the sounds (phonemes) and letter combinations (graphemes), they should be introduced to regular three letter consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. The letter-U pages in this ABC section contain some CVC examples. This is further expanded in Starfall's Learn to Read section with systematic and explicit phonics instruction.

The Starfall ABC section was produced by Art & Gina Morgan with the guidance of Dr. Steven Schutz. It is with great joy we offer this learning tool to the world, and hope that everyone using it has as much fun as we did creating it!

www.pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/

www.seussville.com

Math

http://www.mathmastery.com/cyberchallenge/index.cfm

http://www.coolmath-games.com/arithmattack/index.html

http://www.mathfactcafe.com/

http://www.aplusmath.com

Numbers:

http://www.uptoten.com

http://www.superkidz.com/counting.html

http://fen.com/studentactivities/Piggybank/piggybank.html

http://www.scugog-net.com/room108/money/money.htm

Time:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/telling_time_gr2/

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec3.html

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BangOnTime/clockwordres.html

http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/telling/time.html

http://www.pitara.com/activities/math/time/time.asp?QNum=3

Parent Resources:

• A parent's guide to creating language-rich environments: http://www.parentlinkalberta.ca/publish/920.htm
• A parent's guide to Kindergarten: http://www.education.com/grade/kindergarten/?cid=55000.0055886002&s_kwcid=kindergarten%20conference|1077959575
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). This website gives general information to families on speech and language development, speech and language disorders, pre-reading skills, and swallowing. Easy and useful strategies are outlined for families on various topics: http://www.asha.org
•  This website has lots of information for parents wanting to learn more about their child’s overall development, including their speech and language skills. It describes the emotional, social, intellectual, and motor milestones for 0- 5 years. Fun activity pages are provided for each age range : http://www.investinkids.ca/
• A variety of topics including reading and language development in children ages 0 through 9 years. It describes listening, talking, reading, and writing expectations for each age-range. Everyday activities are given to help parents encourage their child’s language and literacy skills: http://www.pbs.org/parents

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Kidport is an Internet-based educational service designed to help K-8 students excel in school. It provides a unique, multi-step program to create empowered learners, not simply good students. The major components of Kidport as shown in the diagram above include: Coherent Learning System: Think-and-Learn Modules Curriculum-based Content : Workbook Modules and Reference Library—What Kids need to Learn Compelling Experience : Project Modules—What Kids Love Learning Processes : Learning Styles—How Kids Learn Kidport is designed around "Think-and-Learn" modules which make students aware of the thinking skills they need to use while they are learning. The thinking and learning skills are tied to curriculum content to help students transfer the thinking skills to their homework. These interactive modules are also designed to help students learn the required K-8 materials. Projects are integrated into the learning modules to provide compelling real-world experiences and applications. Integrated reference materials provide the necessary background for Kidport activities and help with other school projects. The Curriculum content is designed with a "Traps-and-Gaps" emphasis which focuses on areas where students have problems. These problem areas may be due to the difficult concepts or misconceptions (traps), or material that is not covered thoroughly in school (gaps). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are a few links to sites and articles with more good ideas than you'll ever need! Family Board Games Build Math Skills, from Washington Parent Magazine: http://www.dalymath.com/math.htm Math and Reading Help, compiled by educators and students: http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/articles/How_to_Help_Your_Child_Enjoy_Math.html This math.com page has been around for a while but has lots of good ideas: http://www.math.com/parents/articles/helpmath.htm A teacher at Village Elementary School in New Jersey has some great ideas: http://www.mskunz.netfirms.com/MathGames.htm For older kids, a Mathematical Games page from the Drexel School of Education Math Forum: http://www.madras.fife.sch.uk/maths/games/index.html